РУССКИЙ. Russian is a very difficult language for English speakers to learn. It's sentence structure is very similar to English in many ways, and so if it is the first language you're learning, you may have an advantage. People who have studied other languages may be all too away that sometimes the sentences are different. This can make you too timid to attempt Russian sentences.The Cyrillic alphabet shares many of the same symbols as English, but with different sounds. This can make it difficult to learn it. Below is a helpful chart of the symbols and their respective sounds. When speaking at first, don't try to pronounce the letters much different from what how you would pronounce FORMAL English. In the resources links to the left, you will find a chart that lets you click and hear the sound pronounced.
Russians usually write in cursive, print like above is only for typing, or begging writing. Below you can find a chart that shows the typed character, and it's cursive counterpart, upper and lowercase.
